Zachary wrote:I'm not really sure I can say that I have a single favourite writing system, since it seems that the more I learn one, the less mystical and appealing it becomes.

I've noticed that in myself as well...

These are my favourites by categoryAbjad: Arabic (obviously)Alphabet: threeway tie between Mongolian, Cyrillic, and ArmenianSyllabic alphabets: I'm not going to pick a favourite, they're all beautifulSyllabaries: Hiragana (if only because I don't like any of the others)Semanto-phonetic: 中文 (Chinese) of course!

I like Greek-derived scripts and scripts that were made under influence of the former. These would be Greek, Latin, Etruscan and Old Italic, Phrygian, Lycian, Carrian, Lydian, Runic, Iberian and Celto-Iberian, Coptic, Armenian and Early Cyrillic. (I'm not very fond of modern Cyrillic versions.) Glagolitic is an independent script but with influence from Greek and other scripts. Other scripts that are not Greek-derived would be Kharoṣṭhī which is Aramic-derived; Ancient Egyptian scripts: Hieroglyphic, Hieratic and Demotic; the Linear Syllabaries A, B, C and possibly a script of the Copper Book from Macedonia that hasn't yet been available to public beyond few photos. There are maybe some other scripts as well that I forgot.

I cannot say which one is my favourite. Early Cyrillic and Glagolitic certainly are among the first.

I've always like Egyptian hieroglyphs for their rigidness and how so much effort was put into to carve them and pain them. I also like the linear B script but not for the script itself. I think its very interested how it was deciphered and that it represents an early form of Greek. What historical linguistic wasn't jumping for joy when it was finally deciphered.

Definitely the Latin script, how many other scripts have incorporated the amount of languages as it? Well, I'm a bit biased since the two languages I grew up with use it haha. But in terms of beauty, I'd say Tibetan or Chinese characters (an artform in itself).